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by kierank 16y ago
How is this any more "Big Brother" than hiring people with clipboards to count footfall?
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by kierank 16y ago
Server bandwidth pricing != Consumer internet access pricing.
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by kierank 16y ago
The way it looks now, you could easily mistake it for one of those spammy search pages: http://www.lycos.com/
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by kierank 16y ago
The number of hops still isn't related to net neutrality any more so than buying servers in a particular country can reduce the number of hops to a given ISP.
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by kierank 16y ago
Call me a cynic but this looks a lot like some viral marketing campaign.
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by kierank 16y ago
Windows Media DRM uses ECC.
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by kierank 16y ago
The author is mixing up (or perhaps trying to force into the same boat) private peering and caching with Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is about not prioritising traffic from one source or the other.
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by kierank 16y ago
The Economist and Private Eye.
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by kierank 16y ago
meetup.com, Yahoo Upcoming, Linkedin, eventbrite
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by kierank 16y ago
Unsurprisingly Huffington Post has turned sketchy information into a ridiculously emotive argument that one's freedom on the internet is at stake. Exactly like OSNews did about H.264/VP8. The only thing this article didn't have is a selecti
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by kierank 16y ago
They just axed all new school building and structural maintenance across the entire country. Not quite. They axed the Building Schools for the Future programme which is only part of the school building budget.
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by kierank 16y ago
Presumably the ads would be in the RSS feed as well.
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by kierank 16y ago
I'm surprised Ustream capitulated so easily. In the UK release of IP addresses would have required a court order afaik.
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by kierank 16y ago
There's so much wrong with this article I don't even know where to start.
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by kierank 16y ago
What part of London had ADSL in 1993 considering the ADSL spec was ratified in 1998 ;)
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by kierank 16y ago
Ubuntu from Dell was only there to put a little pressure on Microsoft (probably to call their bluff).
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Making the world's fastest VP8 decoder (x264dev.multimedia.cx)
73 points by kierank 16y ago|20 comments
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by kierank 16y ago
They've chosen the worst video formats to use. H.264 encoding with libx264 would outclass anything ffmpeg's FLV encoder and MPEG-4 ASP encoder could produce. N.B: The FLV container does not require the use of the FLV video codec.
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by kierank 16y ago
There doesn't seem to be any information about patent indemnification. You could say that about any blog post about any piece of software. Just because there's been a lot of (rather emotionally driven) press recently about video patents d
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by kierank 16y ago
You could argue that considering the public perception of MPs right now £65k isn't too bad for them.
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by kierank 16y ago
In spite of their ethical claims, Co-op will still charge you ridiculous fees for going overdrawn or foreign payments or similar.
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by kierank 16y ago
Ryanair is the classic example of a company that is supposedly "hated" yet people use en masse nonetheless because it provides a service that people want.
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by kierank 16y ago
I expected a serious article from Wired about how 3G networks promise so much but can never realistically could deliver the bandwidth consumers want along with an explanation of the reasons why. Instead I got a puff piece about twitter and
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by kierank 16y ago
Then you've done it wrong because Handbrake uses x264 which seriously outclasses anything Sorenson could produce.
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Vodafone Wayfinder Open Source Software(oss.wayfinder.com)
2 points by kierank 16y ago|0 comments
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by kierank 16y ago
There was never any anti-MS sentiment - Visual Studio is not C99 compliant and nobody was going to accept dirty workarounds. If you want to compile x264 on windows you can compile it either with MingW or cygwin with GCC. ICC is also support
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by kierank 16y ago
It's £13bn over a number of years.
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by kierank 16y ago
Rehash it.
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by kierank 16y ago
Open Source in Government is just another political buzzphrase along with Open Data. However, Open Data is relatively easy to do and it has various emotional or financial attachments to some: e.g. "It's our data" or "We paid for it" and so
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by kierank 16y ago
The argument for this is that you're getting a large windfall (and in most cases you haven't done anything to earn it) so you must be taxed on it.

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